What’s All the Fuss About?
You won’t find anyone arguing for bad design, but nonetheless, there’s a lot of badly designed code out there. After a few years on the front line, any developer has the scars to prove it. (Battle-hardened veterans are already nodding their heads and mentally rehearsing their war stories.) But why is this the case?
Sloppy design can be the product of inexperienced programmers, but more often it is caused by the commercial pressures of the software factory squeezing out any time that might have been spent on good design. No one listens to the poor, protesting coders. Programming in the Real World is necessarily bound by the drive to ship software—any software—on time. The irony is that in almost every case, a lack of a ...
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